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Cake day: November 22nd, 2021

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  • Every time I read “debt trap” and it isn’t followed or preceded by “IMF” I get a tiny bit more cynical.

    Even a cursory glance at US monetary policy reveals most about what you need to know about so called “debt traps”.

    Folks in the US write best sellers about it every few years (economic hit man, smedley butler, etc) but it never sticks.



  • There’s a main heading that says the claims are a synthesis of unverified/unverifiable stories.

    Just for discussion’s sake in the case of the Chinese famine it strategically manages to ignore the fact that the US embargoed grain shipments to China during this time. Somewhat famously Canada broke ranks and did sell grain to China during the famine.

    I think you have to have shallow historical knowledge or contextual knowledge to take any of the articles on the page seriously.

    It’s … A long way from scholarly. In this case better uniformed than misinformed. A good candidate for deletion.